Question
Tickets to a museum cost $3 and $8 for adults. a group of four visitors to the museum spent a total of $22 on tickets. Write and solve a system of equations to represent this situation. Interpret the solution
Answers
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Number of $3 tickets ---- x
number of $8 tickets ---- 4-x
3x + 8(4-x) = 22
solve for x and interpret
or
Number of $3 tickets ---- x
number of $8 tickets ---- y
then
x+y = 4
3x + 8y = 22
solve for x and y and interpret
number of $8 tickets ---- 4-x
3x + 8(4-x) = 22
solve for x and interpret
or
Number of $3 tickets ---- x
number of $8 tickets ---- y
then
x+y = 4
3x + 8y = 22
solve for x and y and interpret
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